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Tortebat (François) Abregé d'Anatomie accomodé au

Tortebat (François) Abregé d'Anatomie accomodé aux Arts de Peinture et de Sculpture,

first edition, 12 engraved plates by the author, damp-stained, original marbled wrappers, short split at outer margin along an early fold mark, large folio, Paris, Chez le dit Tortebat, 1667.

***Apparently the first book on anatomy for the use of artists. Two copies of a later edition of 1760 with ten plates appear to be the only one to be sold at auction. The ten plates are of male figures as skeletons or displaying their muscles, tendons, etc. with rennaisance landscapes and twon in the background. The extra plates in this edition are copies of the figures of a man and a woman after Titian published by Vesalius..